Word: contests
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What should have been one of the easier games on the varsity lacrosse schedule has been turned into a close and unpredictable contest by the loss of three key Crimson players. Dick MacKinnon, Tom Crump, and Jerry Cotter will all be out of the lineup when the varsity faces Tufts at Medford this afternoon...
...dislocated shoulder put Cotter out of action in the Princeton contest; he will not be ready to return at least until this Saturday's game against Dartmouth. His loss may well hamper the Crimson attack, since Cotter had been one of the main feeders for crease man Mike Shaw...
...Princeton match, though lost by a wide 13-2 margin, was actually a rather close contest. Seven matches went to three sets, and all of them were won by Princeton. As Jack Barnaby puts it, "We were expecting to beat Princeton pretty handily, but actually if we were to beat them it would have had to have been in the gruelling Presbyterian fashion...
...remaining singles, which finished out the 15-match, Big Three contest, went in much the same direction, with only Ned Weld and the doubles team of Weld and Laurie Pratt being able to salvage wins for the Crimson, making the larger match score read...
Princeton overpowered the varsity with six goals in the first quarter, seven in the second, and five in the third. In the final period, when the Tigers sent what amounted to the J.V. team into play, the contest first became fairly even...